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Marsanne Wine Style: It’s a full-bodied, moderately intense wine with spice, pear and citrus notes. The wine has a high level of alcohol and extract. It is best to drink the wines young. Flavors: Origin: France Found: Victoria in Australia, Rhone in France and California. The predominant white grape variety grown in the Northern Rhône where it is used to [...]
Merlot Wine Style: A light to medium bodied wine with fewer types of tannin and takes well to oak and bottle aging. It’s used frequently as a blending wine with Cabernet Sauvignon. Flavors: Origin: Bordeaux in France Found: Most if not all of the wine-growing regions Merlot is very productive, ripens early, thin skin dark blue grape variety and is adaptable [...]
Montepulciano D’Abruzzo Wine Style: Montepulciano is a medium-bodied wine which produces smooth wines with good drink ability, consumed young. Flavors: Origin: Itay Found: Italy Locally, this is an important Italian red grape variety extensively grown in Central and Eastern Italy. Confusingly it has no connection with the Tuscan town of Montepulciano, nor the Sangiovese based Vino Nobile di Montepulciano which [...]
Mourvèdre Wine Style: It produces tannic wines that can be high in alcohol and gives structure when used in Rhone blends. Its taste varies greatly according to area, but often has gamey or earthy flavors, with soft black fruit flavors. Flavors: Origin: Southern Rhone in France Found: France, , Spain, Australia, and California This grape is also named [...]
Muscat Wine Style: Medium-bodied white from bone dry to rich, sweet wines. Flavors: Origin: Alscace in France, and Italy Found: France, Italy, and Australia Muscat refers to a family of grapes of which there are around 200 different branches. Muscat Blancs à Petits Grains is the most noble of the variety and makes the best and most distinctive wines. It is [...]
Nebbiolo Wine Style: Full-bodied with high acidity levels, tannins and extract but shows enough complexity for the classic Barolo. Flavors: Origin: Piedmont in Italy Found: Italy, Australia and some new world countries. Nebbiolo is the grape behind Barolo and Barbaresco and is hardly ever seen outside the confines of Piedmont. It takes its name from “nebbia” [...]
Petit Verdot Wine Style: Usually as a blend, tends to add flavors of pencil shavings to blends and as a sweetener. Flavors: Origin: Bordeaux in France Found: Australia, Chile, France, Hungary and amongst others Petit Verdot is a very dark grape variety for red wine that has a thick skin. Petit Verdot used to be a more important variety [...]